He likes books, craft beer, wine, root beer, sports, and peas. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Granta, The Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His second novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, was an instant national bestseller.īorn and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in Los Angeles. Ryan Stradal is the author of New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest and national bestseller The Lager Queen of Minnesota. It is one of those rare books you can finish in a day or two, but won't stop thinking about for months, and J. Ryan Stradal is an engaging story of Eva Thorvald, a major culinary force. It marks the entry of a brilliant new talent. 3.5 stars: KITCHENS OF THE GREAT MIDWEST by J.

Ryan Stradal's NYT bestselling debut, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, won the 2016 American Booksellers Association Indie's Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, the 2016 SCIBA award for the year's best fiction title, and the 2016 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for debut fiction. Kitchens of the Great Midwest is hilarious without being cynical, touching without being overly sentimental, and wholly original. By turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Kitchens of the Great Midwest is an unexpected mother-daughter story about the bittersweet nature of life-its missed opportunities and its joyful surprises. Reviewed by Norah Piehl on JKitchens of the Great Midwest by J. He likes books, craft beer, wine, root beer, sports, and peas. Its well-developed, beautifully crafted linked stories each serve as a pleasing and tasty course in and of themselves, and together they add up to a banquet that will leave readers more than satisfied.

Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in Los Angeles.

His second novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, was an instant national bestseller. Ryan Stradal's NYT bestselling debut, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, won the 2016 American Booksellers Association Indie's Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, the 2016 SCIBA award for the year's best fiction title, and the 2016 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for debut fiction.

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